lpqB Resolved · high auto-curated

H37Rv Rv3244c · MTBC0 mtbc0_003452 · 583 aa · 3645302–3647053 (-) · RefSeq NP_217761.1

Annotation: from legacy to revised

Legacy (H37Rv / Mycobrowser)lipoprotein LpqB
MTBC0 PGAP re-annotationMtrAB system accessory lipoprotein LpqB
Revised (this work)MtrAB system accessory lipoprotein LpqB. Pfam: LpqB_N (PF25976.1), Germane (PF10646.15), Gmad1 (PF10647.16).

Auto-curated: this verdict and function were generated by rules from PGAP + Pfam + Foldseek and have not been hand-reviewed.

Curated reference (UniProt)

UniProt P9WK37 SwissProt · reviewed · Evidence at protein level
UniProt nameLipoprotein LpqB
Curated functionMay modulate activity of the MtrAB system in controlling homeostasis of the cell wall and cell division (By similarity). Partially restores antibiotic resistance to M.smegmatis in which this gene has been disrupted.

Functional vocabulary (eggNOG-mapper, orthology transfer)

COG category S Function unknown
Preferred namelpqB
eggNOG descriptionLipoprotein lpqB
Orthologous groupCOG5401
Gene Ontology (11) GO:0005575, GO:0005576, GO:0005618, GO:0005623, GO:0005886, GO:0008150, GO:0016020, GO:0030312, GO:0040007, GO:0044464, GO:0071944

Orthology-based transfer (eggNOG 5.0.2, diamond). EC/KO/GO/CAZy are computed annotations, not manual curation; cross-check against the primary literature before treating a specific reaction as established.

Conservation & selection (intra-MTBC, 145 209 strains)

pN/pS 0.156 · strong purifying
Polymorphic sites (≥ 0.1% of strains) 7 synonymous, 3 missense, 0 nonsense, 0 frameshift

pN/pS from segregating SNPs (singletons removed) normalised by possible sites. Low pN/pS = purifying selection (a strong signal that a "hypothetical" is a real, constrained gene). A high pN/pS is ambiguous: relaxed constraint or positive selection (drug resistance, antigenic variation) inflate it; e.g. rpoB/katG/pncA score high here for resistance, not loss of function. A clonal disruption (one allele over a clade) suggests lineage pseudogenisation; a convergent one (many independent alleles) is typical of resistance loss-of-function.

Domains (Pfam, hmmscan --cut_ga)

PfamAccessioni-EvalueResiduesDescription
LpqB_NPF25976.1 4.0e-2541–161 Lipoprotein LpqB, N-terminal domain
GermanePF10646.15 2.8e-16168–290 Sporulation and spore germination
Gmad1PF10647.16 3.1e-77323–582 Lipoprotein LpqB beta-propeller domain

Functional interaction network (STRING v12, guilt-by-association)

Closest characterised functional partner: mtrB (two component sensory histidine kinase MtrB), high confidence from genomic context alone (score 949 excluding text-mining).

PartnerProductScoreNo text-miningChannels (≥400)
Rv3245c mtrB two component sensory histidine kinase MtrB 979 949 ctx neighborhood:816 coexpression:651 textmining:621
Rv3246c mtrA two component DNA-binding response regulator MtrA 936 820 ctx neighborhood:814 textmining:661
Rv3243c hyp hypothetical protein 803 803 ctx neighborhood:796
Rv3802c membrane protein 774 774 ctx cooccurence:764
Rv1275 lprC lipoprotein LprC 768 768 ctx cooccurence:765
Rv3668c protease 768 768 ctx cooccurence:762
Rv0383c ttfA hyp hypothetical protein 764 764 ctx cooccurence:764
Rv3794 embA arabinosyltransferase A 759 760 ctx cooccurence:756
Rv1476 membrane protein 757 758 ctx cooccurence:756
Rv3035 hyp hypothetical protein 757 757 ctx cooccurence:752
Rv1274 lprB lipoprotein LprB 756 757 ctx cooccurence:755
Rv3795 embB arabinosyltransferase B 753 754 ctx cooccurence:750
Rv2673 aftC alpha-(1->3)-arabinofuranosyltransferase 753 754 ctx cooccurence:753
Rv3247c tmk thymidylate kinase 748 749 ctx neighborhood:748
Rv3793 embC arabinosyltransferase C 744 744 ctx cooccurence:741

STRING combines evidence channels (neighborhood, fusion, cooccurrence, coexpression, experimental, database, text-mining) into a 0–1000 score. The ctx badge marks edges carried by the genomic-context channels (conserved neighborhood, fusion, phylogenetic co-occurrence), which are independent of orthology and structure and the strongest signal for an unknown gene. The no text-mining column recomputes the score from data alone, so a link that does not depend on the literature is visible. Association is a function hypothesis, not proof: corroborate with the operon context and the primary literature before assigning a function.

Evidence

  • Legacy H37Rv annotation: lipoprotein LpqB
  • MTBC0 PGAP product: MtrAB system accessory lipoprotein LpqB
  • Pfam (hmmscan --cut_ga): LpqB_N PF25976.1 (E=4e-25), Germane PF10646.15 (E=3e-16), Gmad1 PF10647.16 (E=3e-77)
  • (auto-curated by rules from PGAP + Pfam + Foldseek; not hand-reviewed)

Sources

  • Ancestral sequence & coordinates: Harrison LB et al. (2024), An imputed ancestral reference genome for the MTBC, doi:10.1101/2023.09.07.556366
  • Product annotation: NCBI PGAP on MTBC0; legacy from H37Rv NC_000962.3 (RefSeq NP_217761.1)
  • Domains: Pfam-A via hmmscan --cut_ga — LpqB_N (PF25976.1), Germane (PF10646.15), Gmad1 (PF10647.16)
  • Sequence-level signal: ESM Atlas (EvolutionaryScale × BioHub) — exploratory
  • Controlled vocabulary: eggNOG-mapper 2.1.12 (Cantalapiedra et al. 2021, doi:10.1093/molbev/msab293), eggNOG 5.0 DB (Huerta-Cepas et al. 2019) — OG COG5401
  • Curated reference: UniProt P9WK37 (SwissProt, reviewed; Evidence at protein level)
  • Intra-MTBC selection: pN/pS and disruption from SPDI variants of 145 209 MTBC strains (this work, local collection vs H37Rv NC_000962.3)
  • Interaction network: STRING v12.0 (Szklarczyk et al. 2023, doi:10.1093/nar/gkac1000), taxon 83332, CC-BY 4.0 — 161 functional partner(s); context anchor mtrB
  • Primary literature: none located yet; annotation rests on the domain/homology sources above.

Ancestral MTBC0 protein sequence

>mtbc0_003452|Rv3244c|lpqB
MRLTILLFLGAVLAGCASVPSTSAPQAIGTVERPVPSNLPKPSPGMDPDVLLREFLKATADPANRHLAARQFLTESASNAWDDAGSALLIDHVVFVETRSAEKVSVTMRADILGSLSDVGVFETAEGQLPDPGPIELVKTSGGWRIDRLPNGVFLDWQQFQETYKRNTLYFADPTGKTVVPDPRYVAVSDRDQLATELVSKLLAGPRPEMARTVRNLLAPPLRLRGPVTRADGGKSGIGRGYGGARVDMEKLSTTDPHSRQLLAAQIIWTLARADIRGPYVINADGAPLEDRFAEGWTTSDVAATDPGVADGAAAGLHALVNGSLVAMDAQRVTPVPGAFGRMPEQTAAAVSRSGRQVASVVTLGRGAPDEAASLWVGDLGGEAVQSADGHSLSRPSWSLDDAVWVVVDTNVVLRAIQDPASGQPARIPVDSTAVASRFPGAINDLQLSRDGTRAAMVIGGQVILAGVEQTQAGQFALTYPRRLGFGLGSSVVSLSWRTGDDIVVTRTDAAHPVSYVNLDGVNSDAPSRGLQTPLTAIAANPSTVYVAGPQGVLMYSASVESRPGWADVPGLMVPGAAPVLPG